The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-09-03

be elected or appointed to any office In Lou
isiana who is not q Nichols man, and that Oi
course means a Gibson man also. Hence
Senator Gibson Is to be chosen as one Of the
Senators, not Of Louisiana, but Of the Mich
oils government that Ia TO be-
AN AsPIRANF MUST BE SOMETHING HiGHHR
THAN A DEMOCRAT.
Knowing the wide popularity Of ex-sena-
tor Jonas, the ReforlneTs were anxious that
he should be the other Senator to represent
the Nichols government in Washington.
But, before according him this honor, It was
determined that he should subordinate his
life long, broad aud catholic Democracy 10
hts devotion 10 tho Nichols faction, He
might continue TO be Democrat, It is true,
but It was necessary that he should DO Nteh-
oils man first and Democrat secondly, If he
choose to be Democrat at all Hence, months
ago, all the Reform papers In the State were
setupon the eollRctOr; he was eomplimented,
fattered, eulogl2ed but he was told, at the
same time, that II he desired TO be returned
10 the Senate as the colleague Of Gen, Glib
son he must deYelope into Something higher
than Democrat be must come out on the
Nichols side he must join with the Re
formers IN mallgning Democratic State adj
minlRtration and traducing all anti-Nlcholls
men as TingEteFs and corrHptionista or trail
tors and hypoerits, II he refused to do this,
play second fiddle 10 Gen, Gibson and dance
when the. Reform bosses cracked tho whip,
he would be Ostraelsgd and defeated, net
by better Democrat, but BY q better Mich
oils man, The Febuke which Mr. Jonas ad-
ministered TO this attempt to crack the Re-
form whip over his shoulders, Is one Of the
most splendid events Of the campaign 80 far,
All along the line the same apidt Of pro
scriptl0n has displayed itself IN threats and
declarations to the effect that, when the
ReioEmers come In, only Nichols men shall
feed at the public crib and that the govern
menb OF Louisiana shall be a Nichols gov
ernment from top to bottom, In the parish
Of Plaquemines the able and efficient Dis
tTtet Attorney Mr. Wilkinson not being
prepared TO declare himself Nichols
henehman, the RefoFmers, SIX weeks ago, got
uP one Of their ingenious little conventions
for which we belieVe MIR. kernoohan holds
the patent, aud nominated Mr.. Bemiss a
hrieaess limb OF the law, for District At
torneY Of that Judicial District This was
tho first fash Of Nichols lightning, Great
Scott !" when the show begins this early
what a ,pyroteehnleal display aTe We V ez
peet few months later when the machinery
Of The lightning shah be IN order rugged and
CREASED and set playing, and dancing, and
skpping around the devoted head OF oyery
anti-Nlcholls official in the State?
THR OLD oRY or sToP THIHF.
But even before this little episode the
sanity fist-hghter gospelier of The Mindau
Tribune, announced that when GOV. Nichols
Hcame TO his own he would be a senurge TO
the MoEnaFyites aud nearly every reform
paper reproduced tho threat as d bold and
manly uttorance, shouted with JOY at the an
tleipated wholesale slaughter Of the political
Philistines. Then came the Baton Rouge
7FHth with q communication III It's editorial
columns, taeit editorial endorsement, signed
HReformer,' Of which the following Is the
substance
"Let 10 man agree 10 note for dltB candidate
fer t9eg! qgtea '0ho Is mol pteaaed % No support
This was also seized upon by the Reform
press and has gone ike Wlldire through Che
State, most Of the Reform papers giving IL
an emphatic editorial approval, while not q
single one has expressed o word OF dissent
from this plan for an intoleraut and pro
scriptiVe ''personal goYanment.n We give
only few citations from the utteranGes Of
the RefGFmers from amongst a vast number
of others. But these, reproduced and en-
dorsed by all, arc sufficient 10 show the in
tolerant spirit aud real purpose Of the Mich
oils party 10 prescribe every Democrat who
is not with them, and to distribute the pat
ronage Of the State, irrespective Oh the ildel-
Ny Of their Democracy, amongst The Nichols
supporters.
ills not necessary 10 produce other eYi-
denee. The case Il complete, We have
quoted their own words and their own writ
ing we have neither added anything TO, or
taken anything therefrom. We defy them
70 show that w have either mlsTepresented
or misquoted them In q single INSTANCE. Out
Of their own mouths these Yaunted Reform
ers crying out against personal goFernment'
have been shown to DO engaged In eonspir-
acy to put upon this State just such 'an OBJ
poxious and prospective personal govern
menr' as the one charged against Coy, Nc
Emery as his 9llg crime II simply the old
But It viii not serve them. We have here
In traced out Of their own words q scheme of
i'personal government complete as whole
and perfect as liz the details as could possibly
be eaneelyed. GOV, Nieholls, sprrounded bY
bis cabal OF guardians ig TO be the centre and
source Of az political lIfe and action. Only
NlcholIsl men have their calling ald ELECTION
Affairs
AETIcPATED ADVENT OF NIcHoLLsIsa
But these worthy gentlemen are ignorant
OF The spirit of the age III which they live.
,tPersoIial goyernmenp' under Grant was en-
hrelY practicable Il was the inevitable ont
come bf the situation az that time. Bat the
Reformers should understand that the eondi-
lions 10 Louisiana now are radically different
from those that prevailed ln the dominating
sectiol Of the Union ter and twenty years
There has Of lete been 20 ciYil war waged
Ia Lonisiana, and hence there Is no over
whelminglY powerful and Triumphant party,
maddened By passion, infsmed with hatred
Of their yenqulshed fellow citizens, clamor
Ing to make their Triumphant leader the IRE
spoRslblc Governor or Dictator oYerthe state.
The people Of Louisiana Gre nov IN the fnll
possession Of their rlghts ond liberties, and
4 reasonable measure 81 prosperity M the
midst OF universal peace sud security, With
free speech and an nntrRlnmeled press 10 ex-
pose hypoefacy and demagogism in politics
ana they afe not likely 10 become the plant
instrument, for such purposes as those pro-
posed BY our socalled Reformers, who IN
tend nothing by t'saglng the State, but TO
feed their own personal aspirations without
any thought Or sense Of duty 70 the country,
Ter Or twenty years ago The country was
ripe for GFantlsm, mud that monstroslty IN
Constitutional government WIS produced.
But times are changed and those Reform
chieftaips and dlgnatafies, Who are 20 anx-
lonsly watching The nceouehment ol the
present pQliticai situatIop n Louisiana, are
not likely to behold The puny @Nlchollsisnl'
they are ao eagerly anticipating, come fofth
from us womb.